As the title says. I get overstimulated quite easily (definitely highly sensitive) but when my baby cries I literally cannot think straight, I cannot just carry on with other tasks and ignore him. My husband can, and seems unfazed by it. Of course I do not want to ignore my child when he cries either, but he is in a very fussy phase right now and it’s difficult to even make myself something to eat or go to the bathroom, and it’s like the constant crying/whining gets into my spine and I feel unsettled, irritated and overwhelmed. My husband says to just “relax and do what you need to do”. I’ve explained that’s it’s so hard for me to not be affected by it, and that as a mother I’m wired to react and respond to it. I don’t know how much truth there is to that?
Of course there’s a difference when he is really crying and when he is just kind of whining, with the former I almost always drop what I’m doing and go to him. My husband thinks I shouldn’t. Baby is nearly 11 months.
